Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gelid or very cold manner; coldly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a gelid manner; coldly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
gelid manner.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
gelid + -ly
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word gelidly.
Examples
-
Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.
Billy Budd 1924
-
Boston, dissatisfied with the rest of the hemisphere, and gelidly self-satisfied in so far as it was not in the least the Boston of her fond preconceptions.
A Chance Acquaintance William Dean Howells 1878
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.